Preposition: on

• velour: Mitzi Lovely Mitzi's painting is painted in soft pastels on velour.

• paper: Have your pet beautifully rendered in pastels on fine art paper.

Adjective modifier

• soft: They are not crayons, oil pastels or soft pastels.

• colored: Colored pastel surfaces can be made by tinting the ground with a few drops of paint.

• contemporary: For a more contemporary design pastel pink or peach can be used to match your wedding colors.

• delicate: Some of the joys of ascorbic acid are that it produces a range of color from delicate pastels to vivid colors of striking intensity.

• pale: The color scheme is pale pastel interspersed with shots of color.

Converse of object

• use: They used pastels over the top of the prints to add more detail.

• include: New auction records included a pastel by Paula Rego, which sold for £ 117,600 against an estimate of £ 50,000 to £ 70,000.

• make: More successful was the hunt for an appropriate postcard from which to make the pastel that is seen behind Jeremy in the picture.

Modifying Another Word

• pretty: With it's steep wooded valleys, and pretty pastel houses clinging to the hillsides, Dartmouth boasts the prettiest town in England.

Modifies a noun

• shade: The mount was often a pastel shade, with pattern.

• pencil: Often I use a small range of pastel pencils carefully to work the eyes up.

• hue: Vintage Wine is a lovely and very stunning multi colored tomato variety with a peculiar pastel hue.

• portrait: You can imagine how much he hated sitting for this pastel portrait.

• drawing: The students did pastel drawings of the shells with artistic intent.

• color: The pastel colors look fabulous in a garden setting.

Noun used with modifier

• chalk: I also work on portrait drawings in pencil, charcoal or chalk pastel.

• oil: Oil pastel can be painted directly onto the painting surface in thin washes.

• cream: The decor is a mixture of plum and cream pastel colors with the original tiled ceiling a notable feature.